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Database of amphibian species of the world
AmphibiaWeb is an American non-profit website that provides information about
amphibians . It is run by a group of universities working with the
California Academy of Sciences :
San Francisco State University, the
University of California at Berkeley ,
University of Florida at Gainesville, and
University of Texas at Austin .
AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide a single page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists,
citizen scientists and
conservationists can collaborate.
[1] It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a
glass frog from
Peru .
[2]
[3] As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species located worldwide.
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Beginning
Scientist
David Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000. Wake had been inspired by the decline of amphibian populations across the world.
[6]
[7] He founded it at the Digital Library Project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. Wake came to consider AmphibiaWeb part of his legacy.
[3]
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Uses
AmphibiaWeb provides information to the
IUCN ,
CalPhotos ,
Encyclopedia of Life and
iNaturalist ,
[8] and the database is cited in scientific publications.
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References
^
"DATABASE: Down at the Frog Pond" . Science . 305 (5690): 1543. September 10, 2004.
doi :
10.1126/science.305.5690.1543a .
S2CID
220104410 .
^ All Things Considered (August 2, 2012).
"Discovery Of 7,000th Amphibian Celebrated In Song" . NPR. Retrieved April 10, 2022 .
^
a
b Robert Sanders (July 30, 2012).
"Despite global amphibian decline, number of known species soars" . University California at Berkeley. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
^ AmphibiaWeb Team.
"About Amphibiaweb" . AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved April 10, 2022 .
^ Diane Schmidtt (2014).
Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide (4 ed.). CRC Press. p. 320.
ISBN
9781466558571 . Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
^ Richard Sandomir (May 19, 2021).
"David Wake, Expert on Salamanders and Evolution, Dies at 84" .
The New York Times . Retrieved June 4, 2021 .
^ Lisa Winter (May 21, 2021).
"Salamander Expert David Wake Dies at 84" . Scientist. Retrieved June 4, 2021 .
^
a
b
"AmphibiaWeb Project" . Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley. Archived from
the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
^ Yap, T. A.; Koo, M. S.; Ambrose, R. F.; Vredenburg, V. T. (2018).
"Introduced bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion in the western United States" . PLOS ONE . 13 (4): e0188384.
Bibcode :
2018PLoSO..1388384Y .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0188384 .
PMC
5901863 .
PMID
29659568 .
^ Richard M. Lehtinen; Frank Glaw; Miguel Vences; Andolalao Rakotoarison; Mark D. Scherz (2018).
"Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar" . European Journal of Taxonomy (451).
doi :
10.5852/ejt.2018.451 .
S2CID
91855421 . Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
^ Mu L; Zhou L; Yang J (2017).
"The first identified cathelicidin from tree frogs possesses anti-inflammatory and partial LPS neutralization activities" . Amino Acids . 49 (9): 1571–1585.
doi :
10.1007/s00726-017-2449-7 .
PMC
5561178 .
PMID
28593346 .
^ Zhan X; Wu H; Wu H (2020).
"Metabolites from Bufo gargarizans (Cantor, 1842): A review of traditional uses, pharmacological activity, toxicity and quality control" . Journal of Ethnopharmacology . 246 . J Ethnopharmacol: 112178.
doi :
10.1016/j.jep.2019.112178 .
PMID
31445132 .
S2CID
208582111 . Retrieved July 2, 2020 .